Huang He Grand Taiyuan

... insisted that everyone take off their shoes on entry! So we lay on our sides enveloped in smelly feet odour! Pleasant! In fairness, it was cosy and warm though! The journey passed uneventfully. A toilet stop, a cheesy kung fu movie and some snoring..... Until....<br><br>The Bus pulled up to the side of the road, a few got out. Then the bus driver decided he'd have a nap. He had a ciggarette, climbed into one of the bunks and fell asleep. For about five hours ...

... br>Taiyuan mel byt pro nas jen prestupni stanice, ale nakonec jsme v nem stravili cele odpoledne. Taiyaun je vice nezmilionove mesto, prestavbu centra dokoncili pred 2 roky. Hlavni ulice je misty az dvanacti proudova dalnice. Nikde tu nikdy nedelaji nic maleho. Asi sem nejezdi moc turistu. Vsude na nas zirali a v obchodech se nas ani nesnazili moc natahnout, takze jsme tam vubec nesmlouvali. Zasli jsme na jidlo, do muzea umeni provnicie Shanxi a posedeli v mistnim parku.<br>

How to learn Chinese is a frequently asked question. Occasionally, people would like to find a tutor to help them learn Chinese. Actually, in modern times with fast development of internet, online mandarin Chinese seems more ...

... a drink. <br><br>After we got off the flight in Taiyuan, Ms. Niu was there to meet us. You'll notice there aren't a lot of picture of us in this entry and that is because when we met her she had brought a professional photographer who was going to take pictures of us. I have to say it takes a really long time to do anything when you have to stop every 5 minutes to get a picture taken of you (by yourself usually) in front of ...

We get dropped off at the Qingxu service station at 2:30am. There's a 24hr convenient store, we find a row of plastic seats and tries to make it until the sun comes up. We have been on the road nonstop for 18 hours, have to wait 7 more hours before we can find a bed.

... we would come to her house for dinner. We said yes and she wrote the place to meet in chinese. At 7pm we hopped in a cab then waited at the place until she arrived. She said that she had gotten a call to go back to the gorge after she left us and it was raining with no visibility. She made us a dinner which was fun to share in her small place. I'll blog more about this later. For now it is time to catch a flight.

... slum vcetne spinavych deti, smecek divokych psu prohrabavajicich odpadky a vubec. Kolem proteka ricka, a vzhledem k suchemu podnebi (prselo naposled nekdy pred dvema mesici), tece v rece uzky prouzek neceho, co ma mlecne zelenou barvu a smrdi to na sto metru. Park kolem pagod je docela pekny, ale ta cesta za to nestala, krome toho klaster okolo pagod byl stejne zavreny a vstupne podle vseho 30 yuanu na osobu. To je dalsi problem Taiyuanu, vstupy, kdyz uz je na co ...

... Pizza Hut here! The pizzas and smoothes are divine, and we've already eaten there three times in less than five days!! (Sorry Sean! haha - we know how much you like Pizza Hut!) In Xian we saw four extraordinary tourist attractions: the tall walls circumventing part of Xian, the Terracotta Warriors, the Panda Rescue Center and Mount Hua Shan. On our first day after arriving on the train into Xian, we headed up onto the ...

... wants to practice their english on you, no problem right. So walking down the road in step chatting with the usual host of questions etc. and then "do you want to stop for some tea". Ah sure why not, it's China, you get endless tea for free with your meals here. A half dozen minuture cups of different types later and you're landed with an astronomical bill, ahh. Incedentally I can't access my blog here (in China), I can write it but not ...

... taiyuan which was another 5 hour drive, there were about 50-60 people on a bus that sat 35 at the most, people were standing in the isle, and on the steps by the door, it was insane, there are no rules, if there would have been more people that wanted to get on, they would have let them on. so we got to taiyuan and found another hotel, this time 30 kuai per person, so $3.60, but it was not much nicer than the previous nights place, but taiyuan was a bigger city ...